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says wind is a mature technology. and what have we got after 20 years and billions of dollars of subsidies? a puny amount of unreliable electricity. our country uses nearly 25% of all the electricity in the world. wind produces 3% of that. of course, it only produces it when the wind blows. it's not easy to store it. so it is of limited use in a country that needs huge amounts of low-cost, clean, reliable electricity. relying on wind power is the energy equivalent of going to war in sailboats when nuclear submarines are available. the wind subsidy is so large, mr. president, that wind developers are now paying distributors to take their wind power under cutting the base load energy plants that are necessary to provide the reliable electricity we need for the country. and on top of that, there are better ways to produce clean electricity, better ways than subsidizing a technology that destroys the environment in the name of saving the environment. for example, for the same -- it would take a row of 50 wind turbines fro
says wind is a mature technology. and what have we got after 20 years and billions of dollars of subsidies? a puny amount of unreliable electricity. our country uses nearly 25% of all the electricity in the world. wind produces 3% of that. of course, it only produces it when the wind blows. it's not easy to store it. so it is of limited use in a country that needs huge amounts of low-cost, clean, reliable electricity. relying on wind power is the energy equivalent of going to war in sailboats...
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today's entrepreneurs may use different technology to develop products and reach potential markets than their predecessors, but the work ethic and the passion to do something remains just the same. this week, i encourage my colleagues to explore the impact of entrepreneurship in their communities and to engage with start-up companies working to make the lives of americans better. i have met with entrepreneurs in kansas and across the country during the last 18 months. the passion and creativity of these entrepreneurs has encouraged me. one refreshing observation is that these entrepreneurs, while competitive, want to see their fell entrepreneurs succeed. they are also building new tools that empower others to make their businesses better. but in conversation after conversation, i also have learned that there are common challenges that entrepreneurs face, some of which can be solved by congress if we follow the entrepreneur's example of seizing an opportunity, rolling up our sleeves and working together. entrepreneurs in america are finding it increasingly difficult to start a business a
today's entrepreneurs may use different technology to develop products and reach potential markets than their predecessors, but the work ethic and the passion to do something remains just the same. this week, i encourage my colleagues to explore the impact of entrepreneurship in their communities and to engage with start-up companies working to make the lives of americans better. i have met with entrepreneurs in kansas and across the country during the last 18 months. the passion and creativity...
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the technology included the so-called system some of you have maybe read about in the last couple of days which was the republican get-out-the-vote technology to ensure people are getting to the polls. i'm told on election day it had so many hits around the country as it should have from people saying this person voted and this person didn't. but if that was under attack it closed down. so for those of you hear from again that technology field to enter some politics, we republicans want to talk to you. [laughter] we need some help. the democratic system was quite effective at micro targeting and i've heard lots of anecdotes and one this morning that you will love that somebody gets a call that's a democrat from law school and was we see that you voted and disinformation is publicly available. was it you that voted 2:00 on election day but your sister hasn't. can you call her. that's the level at that point. that led to a turnout effort that in the end makes the difference. the increase in turnout among the base democratic party is a two-point difference. i do think that as republican
the technology included the so-called system some of you have maybe read about in the last couple of days which was the republican get-out-the-vote technology to ensure people are getting to the polls. i'm told on election day it had so many hits around the country as it should have from people saying this person voted and this person didn't. but if that was under attack it closed down. so for those of you hear from again that technology field to enter some politics, we republicans want to talk...
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if you want to make it cheap as well as good and comprehensive, then you have to think about technology and i.t. and i think that rob's bill well as well and will be quite exciting come 2013. >> thank you very much. i want to thank all the candidates who ran for office whether they were a democrat, republican or some other political party for their willingness to serve in this country. i want to thank those engaging in voting which is our highest civic duty for doing that. i want to recognize that we are at a juncture that is very difficult in this country where 49% roughly voted for each candidate, and so we are going to have to come together to heal. so it's great to start on that process by having democrats and republicans together on a panel to have journalists that are thinking thoughtfully about the crisis so i want to think of the first panel who is with us today but i also want to thank robb but jim pinkerton and stan greenberg for thank you for what you did not only on the panel but you're serious thinking that you do on these topics day in and day out so on behalf of laszlo st
if you want to make it cheap as well as good and comprehensive, then you have to think about technology and i.t. and i think that rob's bill well as well and will be quite exciting come 2013. >> thank you very much. i want to thank all the candidates who ran for office whether they were a democrat, republican or some other political party for their willingness to serve in this country. i want to thank those engaging in voting which is our highest civic duty for doing that. i want to...
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increasing risks from carbon emissions, pricing the carbon is an absolutely to the behavioral change and the technological innovation that we will need in order to ultimately adjust and adapt to what we have already done. the carbon tax also raises revenue in a way that could be used for a variety of different forms but it has an additional kind of benefit associated with. the narrow political discussion that we are having today. >> we see the gasoline prices coming down because the price of oil starts to fall because of all the activity produced in this country may be that would be an opportunity to increase the federal gasoline tax if we don't go to a full carbon tax. with 50 cents a gallon of the federal tax. some of the problem is from a climate perspective transportation and gasoline price petroleum is a small share of the problem. the problem is in the energy sector and without the carbon tax you are not directly getting at that. >> so, i think for the reasons that have been described the carbon tax makes enormous sense to deal with the environmental impact of energy use to like and you can design o
increasing risks from carbon emissions, pricing the carbon is an absolutely to the behavioral change and the technological innovation that we will need in order to ultimately adjust and adapt to what we have already done. the carbon tax also raises revenue in a way that could be used for a variety of different forms but it has an additional kind of benefit associated with. the narrow political discussion that we are having today. >> we see the gasoline prices coming down because the price...
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[applause] >> how could i not like technology? i am a fat guy who prefers elevators and escalators. i feel hot air for a living and i fly way too much for the engines and despite the helicopters sunday. if i look like you know what, then you're right. your eyes are not deceiving you. i got about two and half hours of sleep and cut this 7:00 train down to new york was jennifer duffy is able to watch the senate and house editors on the decision desk at nbc, which is a fascinating place was about 50 people in the room and about two thirds of them are statisticians and look like eight models on each race. so in other words, each of the 50 states presidential, each senate race in each governor's race looking at lake nasser meets politics. and were sort of the nonquantitative people that because we watched the race year in and year out is sort of the hey, does this make sense type thing. so for someone his s.a.t. score was significantly lower than my verbal, it's really cool for me to be in the room. but anyway, it's a lot of fun and we were very pleased and had a really good evening. but
[applause] >> how could i not like technology? i am a fat guy who prefers elevators and escalators. i feel hot air for a living and i fly way too much for the engines and despite the helicopters sunday. if i look like you know what, then you're right. your eyes are not deceiving you. i got about two and half hours of sleep and cut this 7:00 train down to new york was jennifer duffy is able to watch the senate and house editors on the decision desk at nbc, which is a fascinating place was...
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summit technology is an na boehler so the use the technology to be successful. wal-mart used technology. we have to have the original idea to begin with and i think one of the things they've done is they empower their people so a trend in san francisco bay don't have to salute the flag and a good to corporate headquarters. i think what we really need to focus on our couple key things. diversifying the economy, we need a robust basis but now we have to diversify. one of the reasons we suffered so greatly is the entire city was tied to one industry and when they ran into trouble the entire region. the second thing about technology is these are companies that are cabbles that can scale quickly. what used to take decades to create a significant amount of jobs can now in a couple of months. so i think it is imperative that the local universities and communities rally behind entrepreneurship because it can make such a big impact so quickly. >> something i talked to both of you about and i feel passionate about because i know you do this, right now and this is incredib
summit technology is an na boehler so the use the technology to be successful. wal-mart used technology. we have to have the original idea to begin with and i think one of the things they've done is they empower their people so a trend in san francisco bay don't have to salute the flag and a good to corporate headquarters. i think what we really need to focus on our couple key things. diversifying the economy, we need a robust basis but now we have to diversify. one of the reasons we suffered...
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and also, what kind of armed forces who have and also the defense technology. so, should we have discussion about this defense strategy? thank you. >> i had a couple thoughts. you say how do we invest in domestic affairs, money we don't have. but depend on the nature of the deal to raise revenues, basically you're saying money are not spending on the pentagon may be available for the purposes of public investment. it really depends on the larger parameters of the budget deal. asser waste in the pentagon, i'm interested whether my colleagues can put a percentage on. i think it's steep and its pervasive but i think it depends on how you define it if you're buying a weapon you don't become is that wasteful? i would suggest if you are certainly smaller kinds of ways in terms of procurement policy and overruns and so forth. but there's got to be a key target. i think we could do a whole panel on alternative strategy but it's clear that nuclear weapons, preparing for counterinsurgency, the kind of made overly optimistic sense of what we can do with the drones and nav
and also, what kind of armed forces who have and also the defense technology. so, should we have discussion about this defense strategy? thank you. >> i had a couple thoughts. you say how do we invest in domestic affairs, money we don't have. but depend on the nature of the deal to raise revenues, basically you're saying money are not spending on the pentagon may be available for the purposes of public investment. it really depends on the larger parameters of the budget deal. asser waste...
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you have people confuse with a very limited amount of technology and infrastructure requirements like the use of cell phones and how do you communicate during these kinds of disasters at the local level to say what your requirements are? how would you leverage those technologies to inform and independent group who is dedicated to supporting those kinds of things? that could be the csis and any non-governmental government to apply a bias or an agenda. as much as the government wants to do what it wants to do, it is there because it cares and it wants to help but everyone on the receiving end is going to be looking at it, what's in it for them? and so i think that we need a way, supposedly government supported so there is, i don't know, i know of a lot of companies that have identified ways to handle logistics and bring logistics into in a very businesslike way. yet we continue to use what we they know because it's there but it's costly and it's costly to the government that supports it. i would like to see us address a uniformly embraced standard process for how you manage and sort thr
you have people confuse with a very limited amount of technology and infrastructure requirements like the use of cell phones and how do you communicate during these kinds of disasters at the local level to say what your requirements are? how would you leverage those technologies to inform and independent group who is dedicated to supporting those kinds of things? that could be the csis and any non-governmental government to apply a bias or an agenda. as much as the government wants to do what...
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secretary, quite honestly is the lack of an overall information technology architecture you and i have talked about this before, and it still doesn't exist today as far as i know. i've pointed that out and my committee has pointed that out and outside they've looked at the va's i.t. department and have pointed that out. i'm just not convinced that five years from now given that i don't know where you will be, but my fear is that we are going to be sitting here talking about the same issue again because we are not going about it with the discipline i come from an information technology career of over 30 years. i worked at u.s. special operations command as the director of the staff i know what it takes to get this stuff done, and five years, gentleman is totally unacceptable. and i don't really have a question for you. i just want you to fix this for crying out loud. >> can i respond? congressmen coming you and i but primarily roger baker and you have had this discussion. i work with you and we believe we have the good mark on architecture and i haven't satisfied you. we will come back
secretary, quite honestly is the lack of an overall information technology architecture you and i have talked about this before, and it still doesn't exist today as far as i know. i've pointed that out and my committee has pointed that out and outside they've looked at the va's i.t. department and have pointed that out. i'm just not convinced that five years from now given that i don't know where you will be, but my fear is that we are going to be sitting here talking about the same issue again...
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the most interesting and ambitious forum for the discussion on politics and business and science and technology and the arts and it was thanks to the division of the accomplished author and journalist walter isaacson who's the ceo of the aspen institute who approached the owner of the of cleantech, david bradley, about partnering to create a new event called the has been ideas festival. in less than a decade, the house and ideas festival takes place every summer in the beautiful aspin campus in colorado has become an influential leader in the global event arena. for the success we decided four years ago to take elements of that great show on the road and with the partnership of general and the newseum, the washington ideas for rahm was born. you'll hear the greatest journalists interviewed felt makers and leaders to discuss topics as varied the future of the entrepreneur should, global health, education, the future of china and many more subjects. so if you bear with me i would just like to offer some words of appreciation or the organizations and people that have made this event possible. it s
the most interesting and ambitious forum for the discussion on politics and business and science and technology and the arts and it was thanks to the division of the accomplished author and journalist walter isaacson who's the ceo of the aspen institute who approached the owner of the of cleantech, david bradley, about partnering to create a new event called the has been ideas festival. in less than a decade, the house and ideas festival takes place every summer in the beautiful aspin campus in...
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we should the development of new and high technology weapon and equipment. and -- a high caliber personnel in large numbers and we should increase efforts to run the armed forces with the strict [inaudible] and in other nonders with the law to the new level. we should allocate reform of the national defense and armed forces in both active and priewbt way in the military transmore make. we should -- [inaudible] for the innovation in defense -- and. and continue to follow the chinese-style that integrated development of military and civilian sector. we should speed up the butte -- [inaudible] and we should consolidate [inaudible] and the government and military and the civil yap -- civil yabs. national defense policy that different in the nature. [applause] enriching the practice of one country, two system and inconvenient, chinese reunification. since the return to mother land, they embarked a broad road in which they and the mainland descraw on each other and pursue common development with the success of the one country two country principal. the underlying
we should the development of new and high technology weapon and equipment. and -- a high caliber personnel in large numbers and we should increase efforts to run the armed forces with the strict [inaudible] and in other nonders with the law to the new level. we should allocate reform of the national defense and armed forces in both active and priewbt way in the military transmore make. we should -- [inaudible] for the innovation in defense -- and. and continue to follow the chinese-style that...
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they count them in five hours in brazil so i'm not sure why california's less technologically advanced but there we are. all these figures are incomplete as they replied -- it appears obama will get a huge electoral vote advantage and out of this relatively narrow popular vote margin. assuming that he carries florida where he is the current ahead in the miami-dade county. people are are this year counting votes without the assistance of many republican and democratic lawyers. with florida his electoral vote victory is 332-206. bush was 51-48 margin in 2004 india 286 votes and obama was slightly less it appears against 332. i think there is a certain structure of demographic advantage for democrats in the electoral college in this era. democratic voters tend to be clustered into large metropolitan areas and in particular neighborhoods and they give them a craft an initial advantage in the electoral college. president obama got 57% or more of the popular vote in 11 states and the district of columbia and they have 163 electoral votes. romney won 13 states by such margins but they only ha
they count them in five hours in brazil so i'm not sure why california's less technologically advanced but there we are. all these figures are incomplete as they replied -- it appears obama will get a huge electoral vote advantage and out of this relatively narrow popular vote margin. assuming that he carries florida where he is the current ahead in the miami-dade county. people are are this year counting votes without the assistance of many republican and democratic lawyers. with florida his...
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modern technology, frankly it is a 24/7 news media. it is the fact that the members leave their families back home. you can't be a good legislator two and half days a week. you have to work at it. the combination of those things, it contributed to the partisanship and the gridlock that we have now. the answer is simple. it is called leadership. men and women of goodwill, conservative liberals, republicans, and the president -- they say it is an easy and we have to get results. >> so i want to come back to that. let's talk about the challenges that lay ahead over the next three to six months in the government. you have divided power, fiscal problems that you have to address. it's not unlike 1990. you are able to put together a pretty good package in 1990 that led to pave the way for it the deficit subsequently. something like that happen now? what was so different about 1990 than what we have now? >> well, i think it would be more difficult to do it. i came to the senate in january of 1977. when i came there, you had democrats and moder
modern technology, frankly it is a 24/7 news media. it is the fact that the members leave their families back home. you can't be a good legislator two and half days a week. you have to work at it. the combination of those things, it contributed to the partisanship and the gridlock that we have now. the answer is simple. it is called leadership. men and women of goodwill, conservative liberals, republicans, and the president -- they say it is an easy and we have to get results. >> so i...
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part of it is technology. that led to a turnout evident that was very pressed on their side in the end makes the difference increase in turnout among the base, democratic party is that two point difference. second, paul, you and i talked about this, i do think as republicans we were not able to take our message, which was the right message in a year when the economy was not doing well and most people were looking for change and take it to the level that people thought it made a difference in their lives for themselves and their families and this something, folks in this room are either nonmart sawn or democrats or republicans but i hope you can all agree there are certain things we should do in our economy that are growth oriented, including tax reform, regulatory relief and energy policies that we were talking about in this campaign but i think we had difficulty independent voters not republican or democrat. there is not turnout issue this is more dealing with independent voters in the middle enable to convin
part of it is technology. that led to a turnout evident that was very pressed on their side in the end makes the difference increase in turnout among the base, democratic party is that two point difference. second, paul, you and i talked about this, i do think as republicans we were not able to take our message, which was the right message in a year when the economy was not doing well and most people were looking for change and take it to the level that people thought it made a difference in...
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we were able to test new technology, underwater vehicles and neutralizing mines and we brought an international coalition together. we hoped to get about 20 countries here with 35 countries to take part in this exercise. 20 of them brought ships or helicopters or the means. we had a staging base that we used before if you will the flagship, the command ship for the coalition operations and so, we learned a great deal. we learned that there is a lot of synergy that we can bring together and we knew that unmanned underwater vehicles to work on the countermining and that you don't need a countermeasure ships and a large helicopter dragging this led to clear these things out to be effective but in fact smaller ships that some nations with smaller navies bring to bear on this and become very, very effective participants in the mission. >> we are almost out of time but before we get to the last question i have a couple of housekeeping matters to take care of. first of all i would like to remind you about our upcoming lunch speakers on december 18th. leon panetta the secretary of the u.s. to put the d
we were able to test new technology, underwater vehicles and neutralizing mines and we brought an international coalition together. we hoped to get about 20 countries here with 35 countries to take part in this exercise. 20 of them brought ships or helicopters or the means. we had a staging base that we used before if you will the flagship, the command ship for the coalition operations and so, we learned a great deal. we learned that there is a lot of synergy that we can bring together and we...
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ern knee has always recognized the critical role technology plays in these rescue efforts. from the amber alert to his spearheading the launch of the national center's cyber tip line in 1998, this so-called 9/11 for the internet is a clearing center for reports of crimes against children on the internet and so far has received more than 1.5 million reports. ernie is a lawyer and a member of the kentucky bar. he is also a teacher, having held faculty positions at the university of louisville, the university of kentucky, and indiana university. he's been honored by his alma matter,the university of louisville as a distinguished alumnus of the louis brandeis school of law and is an outstanding alumnus of the cheng of arts and sciences. i'm pleased to report to my colleagues that ernie will not be leaving the fight for america's kids. no, his passion won't allow him to take a typical retirement. we're lucky that even as he's stepping down from his role at the helm of the center for missing and exploited children, he is a he focused exclusively on his new role as president and c
ern knee has always recognized the critical role technology plays in these rescue efforts. from the amber alert to his spearheading the launch of the national center's cyber tip line in 1998, this so-called 9/11 for the internet is a clearing center for reports of crimes against children on the internet and so far has received more than 1.5 million reports. ernie is a lawyer and a member of the kentucky bar. he is also a teacher, having held faculty positions at the university of louisville,...